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TEMPTATION AT FORTY
LUKE 4.1-13
FORTY IS AN IMPORTANT NUMBER ESPECIALLY TO THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NOAH'S ARK WITHSTOOD THE TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOUR FOR 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS BEFORE DESCENDING
WITH THE COVENANT CONTAINING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. CHRIST
IT IS SAID WAS ENTOMBED 40 HOURS AND THERE ARE 40 DAYS
BETWEEN THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION. ON ASH
WEDNESDAY WE BEGAN LENT, THE 40TH WEEKDAY BEFORE EASTER
WHICH IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE 40 DAYS JESUS FASTED AND
WAS TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS.
FORTY IS IMPORTANT FOR OTHER REASONS. "LIFE BEGINS
AT 40," SAID SOME ROMANTIC. GAIL SHEEHY SUGGESTS THAT
IT IS AT 40 THAT ONE OF LIFE'S PASSAGES IS REACHED.
OTHERS HAVE POPULARIZED THE NOTIONS OF A MID - LIFE CRISIS
THAT HITS AT ABOUT 4O. IT IS THE TIME VOCATIONS ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE CHANGED, DIVORCES TAKE PLACE, AND DRAMATIC
CHANGES IN LIFE - STYLE LIKELY TO OCCUR. AND THERE ARE
SOME SERIOUS TEMPTATIONS AT 40. THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM
THE ONES THAT WE FACED WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, TEMPTED TO
STEAL SOMETHING THAT HAS ENTICED US WHILE WE WERE LOOKING
AT THE COUNTER AT WOOLWORTH'S; OR THE TEMPTATION TO LIE
TO OUR PARENTS. NOR ARE THEY THE TEMPTATIONS OF OUR
YOUTH WHEN HORMONES TEND TO RULE BODY CHEMISTRY INCLUDING
THAT OF THE BRAIN. THE YOUTHFUL ACQUISITION OF AUTOMOBILE,

TEMPTATION AT FORTY
LUKE 4.1-13
FORTY IS AN IMPORTANT NUMBER ESPECIALLY TO THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NOAH'S ARK WITHSTOOD THE TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOUR FOR 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS BEFORE DESCENDING
WITH THE COVENANT CONTAINING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. CHRIST
IT IS SAID WAS ENTOMBED 40 HOURS AND THERE ARE 40 DAYS
BETWEEN THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION. ON ASH
WEDNESDAY WE BEGAN LENT, THE 40TH WEEKDAY BEFORE EASTER
WHICH IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE 40 DAYS JESUS FASTED AND
WAS TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS.
FORTY IS IMPORTANT FOR OTHER REASONS. "LIFE BEGINS
AT 40," SAID SOME ROMANTIC. GAIL SHEEHY SUGGESTS THAT
IT IS AT 40 THAT ONE OF LIFE'S PASSAGES IS REACHED.
OTHERS HAVE POPULARIZED THE NOTIONS OF A MID - LIFE CRISIS
THAT HITS AT ABOUT 4O. IT IS THE TIME VOCATIONS ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE CHANGED, DIVORCES TAKE PLACE, AND DRAMATIC
CHANGES IN LIFE - STYLE LIKELY TO OCCUR. AND THERE ARE
SOME SERIOUS TEMPTATIONS AT 40. THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM
THE ONES THAT WE FACED WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, TEMPTED TO
STEAL SOMETHING THAT HAS ENTICED US WHILE WE WERE LOOKING
AT THE COUNTER AT WOOLWORTH'S; OR THE TEMPTATION TO LIE
TO OUR PARENTS. NOR ARE THEY THE TEMPTATIONS OF OUR
YOUTH WHEN HORMONES TEND TO RULE BODY CHEMISTRY INCLUDING
THAT OF THE BRAIN. THE YOUTHFUL ACQUISITION OF AUTOMOBILE,